Operations Program Manager

Job description

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

This position can be based at any of our Diabetes Care locations in the UK and Ireland, including Witney (UK), Donegal (Ireland), or Kilkenny (Ireland).

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• With a high level of independence, coordinate company-wide activity in support of major new product launch or launches and/or upgrades to existing products.

• Document and maintain archives for all product-related development activities such as plans, schedules, meeting minutes, management reviews, and departmental reviews.

• Prepare product development status reports and present to Senior Management.

• Serve as a product line champion during the development, launch, and post launch phases.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Strategic Develop product requirements and programs to meet strategic needs of the business.

• Communicate product development program status to development teams and ADC management.

• Balance product cost, performance, and time to market issues in order to meet ADC goals.

• Coordinate activities between operational organizations from project initiation through launch.

• Tactical Hold regular project review meetings to coordinate and document the activities of all departments contributing to a product launch, including QARA, Operations, R&D and Finance.

• Generate and control various documentation as appropriate, such as product specification, Design and Development plans, product configuration, resource assignments, Bill of Materials, etc.

• Develop product costing estimates working with R&D, Operations, and Finance.

• Provide input to the PMP process.

• Manage development costs on a program.

• This position is responsible for team integration on a program, for project team performance, and for evaluation and reporting project status to senior management.

• Regulatory Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system.

• This position is responsible for the product definition and development, and preparation of all departments for a successful timely

• launch of a quality product meeting the ADC business and product strategies.

• This position is highly visible and accountable, responsible for directing, and reporting to senior management, the activities in the

• launch for a new product.

• This position will provide leadership to a project team, integrating activities across all departments, with influence across departmental lines.

• The organizational responsibilities include indirect responsibility for people across ADC departments (QA/RA, R&D, Operations and Finance) working on a product launch

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors Degree (± 16 years) Business or a technical discipline

• Masters Degree (± 18 years) Business or a technical discipline

Experience/Background

• Experience working in an environment with a disciplined development process for very quality-sensitive applications Experience in writing product requirements and design specifications.

• Experience in working on a development team with an emphasis on minimizing time to market.

• Experience in design for manufacture for high quality (preferably) medical products.

• Experience in designing medical devices in an FDA regulated environment is desirable.

• Experience working in team environments is required.

• Knowledge of Program Management tools such as project scheduling, work breakdown structures, time and cost reporting is required.

• Position requires the ability to collect information from multiple sources, sort through, integrate, and resolve often conflicting requirements, and drive an organization through the various issues to result in a successful product launch.

Note: This job description is not to be considered an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements and does not limit the assignment of additional duties for this role

The base pay for this position is

N/A

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job family

Engineering

Divisione

ADC Diabetes Care

Sede di lavoro

Ireland > Donegal Town : R267

Sedi di lavoro ulteriori

Turni

Standard

Viaggiare

Yes, 10 % of the Time

Controllo medico

Yes

Attività lavorative significative

Not Applicable